Chapter 949 The Forgotten Oren

The atmosphere in the box reached a stalemate again. Snape took a step back again and said nothing.

He just looked at Dumbledore with a very complicated look.

"You're not dead————"

His voice was dry and filled with the anger of being deceived, "So that funeral was also a fake. You lied to everyone, including me."

Grindelwald frowned, dissatisfied with Snape's offensive tone...

"I don't like that professor."

"Albus is just too kind. At least in Durmstrang, no teacher would dare to speak to the principal in this tone."

If anyone else were here, they would be surprised by Grindelwald's words.

He was actually speaking for the enemy who defeated him, instead of Snape who let him leave Nurmengard.

But Kyle didn't find it strange at all.

The last time he went to Nurmengard, he saw an unsent letter written on a piece of sheet in the corner of the top floor.

"You know I'll write you back when you want me to, just as you know I've loved you since the first day we met."

It can be seen that there is a reason why the letter was not sent--of course, it may also be that Nurmengard is short of owls.

This is why Kyle was able to scare Grindelwald off with just a few photos.

What he took out were precious pictures carefully selected over the past few years.

For example, the picture of Dumbledore with tears streaming down his face when meeting Ariana is an exclusive photo that only Kyle has.

Dumbledore, who was crying with joy, showed his vulnerable side in front of outsiders for the first time. Needless to say, how precious it was. Except for Kyle, others may never see Dumbledore like this.

There are also precious memories of friendship between the high-spirited young headmaster and the ambitious Grindelwald in Godric's Hollow in 1899.

Yes, Kyle has more than three photos, and far more than that - after all, his original idea was to fill an entire photo album, so how could only three photos be enough.

Kyle subconsciously touched his deformed lizard skin bag, but his action immediately caught Grindelwald's attention.

As a ----- well, a villain who is good at playing with people's hearts, even after being imprisoned in Nurmengard for seventy years, Grindelwald's insight is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

But he just watched with interest and said nothing.

"I'm sorry, Severus." Dumbledore said after a moment of silence: "I know you don't want to hear any explanation from me now, but I can assure you that the funeral was not completely fake."

That soft tone with a hint of remorse made Grindelwald even more angry.

But since Dumbledore was still here, he held back and continued to remain silent.

"It's not completely false --- what does this mean?" Snape asked with a frown, not knowing that there was someone next to him who wanted to kill him all the time.

"I believe you should know what this means when you see what I look like now.'

Dumbledore opened his arms, and a gust of wind carried a few fallen leaves through his body.

"Ghost——" Snape said, and then shook his head, "No, it's impossible. Dumbledore can't be a ghost."

"I'm glad you think so highly of me." Dumbledore smiled.

Ghosts are just a name. They are wizards who are afraid of death and leave their mark on the places where they once lived.

In other words, ghosts are at odds with Gryffindor, the symbol of courage.

Dumbledore probably felt that Snape had just acquiesced that he was a courageous, true Gryffindor.

To be honest, he was really happy.

"I am indeed not a ghost." Dumbledore said with a smile: "To be precise, I am now a memory that has been put into a pensieve."

Snape subconsciously looked at Dumbledore's feet. There was nothing there, not even a rough stone basin engraved with runes.

"This is just a metaphor, Severus." Dumbledore explained: "A special magic replaces the function of the Pensieve, allowing this memory of mine to appear here completely."

"That's not what you were like just now." Snape shook his head.

Although he was unconscious for a while, he still remembered Dumbledore's appearance when he first appeared -"·

He had a serious face and started with powerful weather magic, which scared Voldemort so much that he started swearing...

He scolded Dumbledore in a high voice for not practicing martial ethics, and secretly prepared a Horcrux for himself.

Using magic... This is not something that a piece of memory can do.

"Severus, I wasn't supposed to be here, but at Hogwarts, explaining this in front of all the students and professors."

Dumbledore sighed, "I have to admit that I did one thing wrong. I should have trusted you more, or left you with something more obvious when sending Draco to you." hint."

"Draco, is that you?"

"That's right." Dumbledore nodded, "I think if the child is left locked in the classroom, he will definitely be taken away by the Ministry of Magic. This is unfair to him."

"Is that fair to me?"

"I'm hugging you, Severus."

"Really?" Snape sneered, and it could be heard that he was still a little resentful.

Grindelwald subconsciously took a step forward.

"Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive -" Kyle leaned over and whispered: "This matter is indeed Professor Dumbledore's dishonesty. Snape should be a little resentful."

"Oh?" Grindelwald glanced at Kyle sideways, "First fake death, then hide and prepare for a sneak attack in secret...Why do I feel that this is not an idea that Albus can come up with."

"Maybe--well, Professor Dumbledore must have kept pace with the times." Kyle said seriously: "After all, you haven't seen each other for seventy years."

"So what, even if I haven't seen him for a hundred years, I still know him——"

Kyle stopped talking, he felt a little awkward being stared at by Grindelwald.

"Let's take a step back. I think you should also thank Snape." He changed the subject a little stiffly: "After all, it was him who allowed you to come out of New Mengadri."

"Do you really think that tower can imprison me?" Grindelwald said meaningfully: "Or do you think that without the wand, I can only be slaughtered by others."

‘I didn’t mean that. "Kyle shook his head.

This is also his true thought. Although casting a spell without a wand is one of the most difficult skills, the opponent is Grindelwald, so how could he not be able to do it.

"You know what? He told me Dumbledore was dead—."

Grindelwald shook the wand in his hand that originally belonged to Snape.

"He should be lucky to be alive after telling such a huge lie to me."

Grindelwald did not deliberately suppress his voice like Kyle, so several people present heard his words.

No one thought Grindelwald was joking, especially Snape. After the two came here,

Snape knew that the other party wanted to kill him.

Grindelwald looked at him as if he were looking at a burnt steak.

That kind of invisible pressure made him feel very uncomfortable, which was much better than when he and Kyle were grabbing things just now.

But now that feeling appears again,

"This is all my fault." Dumbledore stood up and said, "Severus didn't know that I was still alive, so in a sense, he didn't lie to you."

Kyle pouted and took a step back.

To be honest, if Dumbledore was really good for Snape, he should just shut up and say nothing at this moment instead of standing up to defend Snape.

Didn't you notice that after he stood up, did Grindelwald's hand hold the wand harder?

But it was hard for him to remind him of this kind of thing. If Grindelwald felt embarrassed, the first person he would look for was himself. Kyle didn't want to be resented.

But after no one spoke, the atmosphere gradually became awkward.

"I just want to kill the Dark Lord in my own way." Finally, Snape was the first to speak.

"But we clearly agreed before -."

"Harry Potter can't kill the Dark Lord."

Snape interrupted, "I believed you at first, thinking that the Dark Lord would lose to Potter as before, until I personally participated in the battle at Hogwarts.

I don't know what Potter is going to do to kill the Dark Lord, and this time, no one will use the ancient protective magic on him. "

"But what does this have to do with your coming to Nurmengard?"

"To find an enemy for the Dark Lord who can kill him." Snape looked at Grindelwald.

"I remember you said that as long as Harry is alive, no one can kill the Dark Lord."

"That's right——" Dumbledore said, "because Harry is also one of the Horcruxes——Oh, I think I understand."

Dumbledore suddenly said: "So you rescued Tom when you were at Hogwarts. I always thought that you didn't want him to die with the professors, but now it seems that you didn't want other people to know." Li is a Horcrux.

"Are you worried that others will kill Harry if they know the truth?"

Snape said nothing, just tilted his head and looked away.

"Even if this matter is discovered, Minerva will definitely not do this." Dumbledore sighed.

"What about others? You can't guarantee that everyone will favor students as much as you do, Dumbledore." Snape said:

"And I know the Dark Lord. He will not fight to the end. Even if I don't save him, he will definitely find a way to escape. Instead of hiding after he escapes, why can't you try my method."

"Your solution is Grindelwald?"

"That's right." Snape said, "I didn't want to come here. Until that time, you and the Dark Lord had a big battle somewhere abroad - Austria, a place very close to here. ”

"I never understood why the Dark Lord chose this place to fight you, until one time,

I accidentally saw a very old newspaper, and the content above solved my doubts.

"Everyone knows that Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald and saved Europe --- but few people know that the two were close friends when they were young."

Dumbledore and Grindelwald were silent.

Indeed, few people know that although this is true, it is too much like a rumor-Dumbledore received the Order of Merlin First Class because he defeated Grindelwald. Do you think they are close friends? How is it possible?

After so many years, even if someone told the truth, no one would believe it.

"It's just that at that time, I didn't pay too much attention to it." Snape looked at Dumbledore, "But then you were suddenly killed, and I learned the legend of the Elder Wand by chance. "

"So, at the most critical moment, a plan emerged."

"Let me deal with that guy named Tom?" Grindelwald raised his eyebrows.

"That's right." Snape said, "If you were really close friends, maybe you would choose to avenge Dumbledore after knowing the truth.'

"You also said it was once." Grindelwald shook his head, "He defeated me and caused me to be imprisoned in Nurmengard for seventy years. Maybe we have turned from close friends to enemies, and I have How can you avenge him?"

I don't know why, but after listening to Grindelwald's words, Snape was convinced at once, as if he didn't expect this possibility at all.

Grindelwald stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled, "What a brilliant confusion spell."

"What did you say?" Kyle looked at Grindelwald in confusion, "Has someone used a confusion spell on him?"

"Want to know?" Grindelwald held out three fingers.

Kyle's mouth twitched and he took out a photo. "No more, it's up to you to say it or not."

"Deal." Grindelwald glanced at the photo and put it away with satisfaction.

"You can talk now."

"You can ask that fool to think about it carefully." Grindelwald said slowly: "What he called unintentional and accidental, is whether a specific person appeared.

"There may not be direct contact, but they must have seen it."

A specific person?

Snape first lowered his head to think, and after a moment his pupils suddenly shrank.

"It seems that you should have thought of it." Grindelwald continued: "I am sure that at least one of them, the newspaper or the Elder Wand, was led to you by the other party.

"In other words, your identity as an undercover agent has been exposed a long time ago."

"Who is that person?" Kyle asked.

"You should ask him that question."

Kyle and Dumbledore looked at Snape at the same time.

"Oren." Snape's voice was dry and he said a name that both of them knew but had almost forgotten.

Snape was lost in memories.

"Oren was the first to discover that the Dark Lord's wand had changed. He seemed to know the origin of the Elder Wand and enthusiastically shared the legend about this wand with others."

"Later, the Dark Lord found that his wand was a bit unresponsive and could not be fully used by him. I thought of what Oren once said about the Elder Wand being loyal to Grindelwald."

‘Then this trip to Nurmengard will become a matter of course. If everything goes well, I will accidentally tell the news that Dumbledore was killed and accidentally drop a wand. "

"Wait, wait a minute." Kyle stretched out his hand.

"According to you, Oren knew a long time ago that Voldemort did not completely control the Elder Wand?

"This is a bit too amazing."

"I don't know." Snape shook his head, "But according to what Mr. Grindelwald said, Oren is indeed the most suspect."

"The Elder Wand's rejection of a wizard is actually quite obvious." At this time, Grindelwald suddenly said: "If the person you are talking about knows enough about the Three Sacred Artifacts, it can actually be seen." See it? "This is the first time Kyle has heard of this kind of thing.

"Want to know?" Grindelwald stretched out his entire palm this time, meaning five photos.

"No, I don't want to know." Kyle decisively refused his lion-mouthed behavior.

"Well, that's a pity." Grindelwald did not insist.

"You, like most wizards, don't want to spend time and effort looking for clues related to fairy tales like the Three Holy Treasures.

Some details about the Elder Wand are just hidden in these leftovers from fairy tales that have not been recorded. "

"Oren used his identity as a bard to travel around various countries to facilitate his smuggling of magical animals, and what bards are most exposed to are fairy tales."

Dumbledore said softly next to him: "He played the role very successfully and has never been broken down."

"That's not surprising." Grindelwald stared at Snape, "Oh, and I found that I seemed to have made a mistake. The traces of magic left on your body don't seem to be a confusion spell, but a hypnotic suggestion. ?”

"What does this mean?"

"It is through some kind of language hint that I can let some people know about my existence, just like him."

Grindelwald pointed at Snape.

"Before this, he may have never known me, let alone asked me to help deal with that Tom."

"It's really interesting." Grindelwald suddenly laughed, "He must have used this special hint to many people. This can ensure to a greater extent that when there is a problem with the wand, someone can look at that Tom. Bring me here."

"I kind of want to meet him, that clever and cunning wizard."